Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-04-29
lieutenant Danenho,er Comm Suicide.

Lieutenant Danenhover Commits Suicide. {
Lieut. John W. Danenhower, OF Arctic
| fame, was discovered at 10 o'clock last
| Wednesday 20 inst, near by his quarters
at the naval academy Annapolis NJ d., with,
| a bullet hole in right temple. A tag tied
to his button-hole said: "Send tony broth.
er at Washington. Although he had
had mental troubles sir lie returned from
| to the suicide is thought to have been the
! recent groundinc:nt the Constellation, OF
which he had charge, on it's way to Nor
folk, and for which it is supposed he had q
| fear Of being court:martialed. Further
| moro he was very intimate with
young Robert. w. Gatewood, OF the
| naval academy, who recently committed
| suicide on the steamer Carolina and whom
| he saw in death. It is supposed that this
is absent with her parents at Oswego, NY.
Lieut.. Danenhower was an intelligent and
| polished officer.
The news created a sensation in the navy
department, and was q subject OF general
| conversation among the officers and en-
pioyes, who recalled certain Incidents in the
past life of the lieutenant in explanation OF
| his suicide. A few days ago he was at Nor
| folk, Va, looking after the equipment OF the
recalled dy officers who met him at the na-
| Wy yard that he was very morose and dis
| traught, and the opinion was freely ex-
| pressed that he was suffering from an at
! tack OF his old malady. Not the slightest
doubt is felt at the department OF his in.
sanity when he took his life, as he was very
happyin all his domestic relations, and
his future prospects were OF the brightest
Lieut.. Danenhower was born 81 years
Il i,
| vice in 1856. He was among the first OF
the officers who volunteered to 60 upon the
Jeanette Arctic expedition. On July l,
1879, the Jeanette sailed from San Fran
cisco on North Polar expedition by way
of Behring strait. The crushing OF the
| Jeanette in the pack ice, the separation in
| a gale of the three boats containing the
| officers and crews. the starvation OF Cap
| tain De Long and tile boats crew, the loss
| OF Lieut.. Chipp's boat, and the terrible
| sufferings and final rescue OF Melvile's
party, are matters of history.
Mr.. Alexander Sullivan said in Chicago:
| Lord Harrington has become a monoma-
MAC and is evidently prepared to believe
any falseh God, however preposterous, on
account OF the death OF his brother, Lord
Frederick Cavendish know Just as much
| and just as little about the Phoenix Park
affair as Lord Harrington himself, and in
that respect am in precisely the same po
sition as Mr.. Parnell, Mr.. Egan. Mr.. Bren-
nan and others OF the National league
| whose names have been untruthfully con-
| nected with it. So far as Lord Cavendish
was concerned, Mr.. Parnell perfectly ex-
pressed my views. Concerning Burke,
| while was as ignorant OF the intended as
sault upon him, and as totally disconnect-
ed from it, am not SO hypocritical as to
profess any sympathy with the man.
Americans will understand this when add
! that he held in Ireland a worse Gf possible)
attitude to the people than the chief fiend
prisoners in those dens. All that Wirz
was, Burke was and more. He was spy
and q traitor. He visited prisoners in
| the jails and under the guise OF friendship
tried to extort from them something THAI
might be twisted into evidence to convict
them. His motive was to retain his Office
in Dublin castle.
The gross public debt of Canada, March
81, was $27O, $40, LAG; net debt, $685.
S65, S3l; revenue from the sale OF do,nin-
ion lands last year, homesteads and pre-
emption sales, $500, BAL; leases, $780,
615.
Mr.. Parnell has gone to Dublin to endeav-
Or to slit the matter Of the letter publish
possess several special specimens OF Par
nells signature, written about the date Of
the disputed letter, from which We are able
to parallel the peculiarities of the sigma
tire.
Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking at
Nottingham, Eng, said that ifthe Parnel-
lites choose to bring an action against the
Lond on Times they need not trust an En-
glsih jury, because they can take proceedings
against the Times in Ireland or Scotland.
He would not make himself party to the
accusation, but it might be necessary for
| the house OF commons, Independently OF
the Parne llites, to take action to clear it.
sell as body OF the grave charges made
against section Of its members.
Senator Salisbury Of Delaware has Civ
on up all liquor ever since his brother died
from delirium tremens.
A letter from Gauta mala says: Hereto
fore the great obstacle to Central American
! unifcation has been the indifference Of
Nicaragua and the opposition OF Costa
Rica. President Bernardo Solo of the lat
ter republic is now, however, a champion
OF the unification idea. BY the terms OF
the new treaty citizen OF Central
American republic can become citizen OF
the others without naturalization, and
all natural products can pass from one
country to another without paying duty.
Fulton Ill.,, had q $25, 900 fire, The Full
ton Foundry being among the victims.
Gen. #. J. Brady, ex assistant post
! master general, is seriously i'll in Jersey
City, suffering from an abscess.
Charles WELLER & Sons, clothing OF Balti-
! more, made an assignment. The bond OF
the trustee is 100000.
! The late Mrs. Catharine Dunbar, former
! owner of the Bethesda spring at Waukesha,
Wis, had sold Bethesda to congress man
Guenther before she went to Paris to see
her daughter Estelle, who married MIR.
| Huffer, banker there.
| H. G. Brooks, founder OF the Brooks To-
| connective works, died at Dunkirk, N. Y, of
| paralysis.
| A letter containing draft for $75, 900
was mailed at Philadelphia by the Bank
| OF North America on April z. The bank
advertised that the draft had been lost
| and payment sropp d.
The deeds for the estate of Gov. Coburn,
! who recently died in Maine, were filed in
! the registers Office at Fargo, the consider.
| alton for the persons property being $48,-
900, while the real estate, which comprises
twenty sections OF land in this (Cass)
county, ia put at 1928. 500. At one time
Gov. Coburn and his brother were among
the largest owners OF land in North Dako.
! ia. from which they cleared a million dol
| lars.
| The Lake Superior Transit company is
quoting freight rates from Boston or New
| York by rail and lake via Duluth or Wash
burn, the St. Paul & Duluth or the Omaha
roads, to st. Paul and Minnea polls at go,
rs, 81. ~, 33 and 20 cents per hundred
/ pounds, according to the class OF merchan.
disc. =*l..'. -
Philip Weinard of East Minneapolis who
has just returned from Calgary, n. w. T.,
reports considerable uneasiness among the
ranchmen Of Northern Montana. For some
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